Abi Titmuss be a con

 As ratings take dive,
Abi 'accidentally' flashes..
but was it all just a plot?

By Gemma Calvert

BUSTY Abi Titmuss threw Celebrity Love Island a lifeline yesterday...by getting her buoys out for the lads.

With the reality show in danger of sinking, worried TV bosses have been locked in crisis talks as two million viewers turned off in THREE days.

But yesterday, with the ratings in freefall, the show's biggest signing made a clever play for the £100,000 prize by suffering a well-timed ‘wardrobe malfunction'.

An insider admitted: "We're not over the worst yet, but at least the celebrities are finally earning their money.

"No one invited Abi on to the show because of her sparkling wit or engaging conversation. She's pure eye candy.

"And now she's finally started playing up to the cameras we hope the ratings will pick up.

"The spin was that the show was about love and romance but it's an open secret here that what we really hoped for was some bare flesh from the girls."

Miserable

Celebrity Love Island was launched in a fanfare of publicity on Monday, reeling in 5.3million viewers. But by Wednesday the honeymoon was well and truly over as the ratings plummeted to just 3.4million.

Though the show rallied by 500,000 on Thursday, producers have been gripped by panic as their £14.5million dabble with reality threatened to backfire.

Because the show's end-of-week climax, in which former EastEnders actress Judi Shekoni got the boot, only pulled in a miserable 3.7 million.

An ITV source said: "The atmosphere is bordering on panic in both Fiji and London.

"Top brass were promised a format that would rival I'm A Celebrity but Love Island does not even come close.

"Executives are concerned that the channel now looks stupid for investing so heavily and hyping up a new show that has failed to deliver. And moneywise it is a disaster. They promised advertisers huge ratings and simply haven't delivered."

As the rot sets in, Love Island presenters Kelly Brook and Patrick Kielty have also begun to feel the pressure as their chemistry-free double act continues to turn off viewers.

And a sly aside on camera almost turned ugly this week after Patrick revealed Kelly once dated contestant and ex-Hollyoaks star Paul Danan, causing her to snap: "No!"

Though the former Big Breakfast presenter tried to laugh off Patrick's jibe, insiders say she was inwardly fuming. So much so, the pair have yet to spend any time together off-set despite living in neighbouring villas.

An insider said: "You can cut the tension with a knife—they just don't get on. And the fact that the show is bombing has obviously made it worse."

So it was a stroke of luck that in this climate of squabbles and wobbles Abi should decide to parade her baubles.

Jumping into the celebs' pool in a slinky black bikini, the blonde ‘accidentally' lost control of her famous 32DD assets, looking mock surprised as she came up for air.

Amazingly, Abi later insisted she was FED UP with her sexy image, even though she had spent the week posing in skimpy bikinis. The glamour girl, who made more than £1million in the last year, also told her co-stars she was SICK of being lusted after.

All of which should come as news to Jayne Middlemiss who branded her a "big fat slag" after she made a play for Lee Sharpe, the man Jayne was after.

Sexual

Abi, 28, grumbled: "I hate always having to be sexual. I want to be able to be more than that."

The blonde then complained that her private life had been exposed—after taking part in videoed group sex sessions.

Trying to build bridges with Jayne, she confided: "My mum said ‘So what if you had an orgy? If it was Roman times nobody would bat an eyelid'."

The Romans also used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste, but it doesn't make it right.